Clinical Memoirs on Abdominal Tumours and Intumescence - new book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: compared with cerebriform disease, would be amongst the most decisive marks, modifying or confirming the conclusions to which situation and feel had led. Case 1.?Hydatids in the abdomen, of many years' standing; showing the acephalocysts in almost every stage of their existence.? Ann W?, set. 54, was admitted into Guy's Hospital, under my care, August 15th, 1827, with a peculiar swelling of the abdomen; her health at that time suffering so far, as to make her feel all exertion irksome. It appeared, from her account, that she had given birth to her first child, which was still living, about fourteen years before;?that, about two years after, she bore a second healthy child, which was her last. She never thought that she returned completely to her natural size, after her first confinement; but it was not until nine or ten years ago that she suspected any unnatural condition of the abdomen; and the enlargement was so gradual, that she was unable to say whether it began in one part more than another; nor was it till about three years ago, that the swelling, gradually assuming its present appearance, very decidedly attracted her attention. At the time of her admission, the whole abdomen was greatly enlarged; the upper two thirds occupied by an irregular tumour, indistinctly fluctuating, and, in various parts, somewhat tender on pressure: the lower part of the abdomen was also occupied by a fluctuating tumour, apparently a large cyst arising from the pelvis. The intervening space was soft; and was the only part which gave a clear or tympanitic sound on percussion. She complained chiefly of constipated bowels and loss of flesh, although her appetite continued good. During the first months that she was in the hospital, she remained chiefly in bed, sitting up but little; not so much fro...